Toyota Shows Machines to Help Sick, Elderly Move

By YURI KAGEYAMA
AP Business Writer
November 1, 2011

Toyota unveiled its ambitions for high-tech health care Tuesday, displaying experimental robots that the auto giant says can lift disabled patients from their hospital beds or help them walk.

The company aims to commercialize products such as its "independent walk assist" device sometime after 2013 — seeking to position itself in an industry with great potential in Japan, one of the world's most rapidly aging nations. the rest